There is also triple < here doc that provides a string as stdin input, e.g. cat <<<"this string"
Cool! Does this give you any benefits over “echo some string | cat”? I guess it saves cat from being run in a sub shell, maybe?
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There is also triple < here doc that provides a string as stdin input, e.g.
cat <<<"this string"
Cool! Does this give you any benefits over “echo some string | cat”? I guess it saves cat from being run in a sub shell, maybe?